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While “reality” TV is becoming the norm for the small screen, I still tend to watch most of my nonscripted fare on PBS stations, of which we are lucky to have two in the Tampa Bay area. The other day on WUSF I saw “The Rise &...

President Barack Obama this month commuted the sentences of 46 federal prisoners who were convicted of drug-related offenses, saying “their punishments didn’t fit the crime.” Hundreds more are likely to follow.

Debates about whether to cut military spending always lead me back to the Korean peninsula, and June 25, 1950, when 135,000 North Korean troops swarmed into South Korea, quickly capturing its capital before the U.S. could even respond.

The Baseball Hall of Fame inductions came and went Sunday, and once again Pete Rose was not among those enshrined. It doesn’t matter that he has more hits than anyone who ever played, or appeared in more games than anyone else, or still electr...

Another Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony has come and gone, and again Pete Rose’s name has not been called. Again, former players whose achievements pale by comparison have been enshrined. And again, fans have called for an end to the injustice....